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Women's health conference features former Surgeon General
M. Joycelyn Elders, former U.S. Surgeon General, will be the
featured speaker at a conference on Women, Health, and Diversity
on Thursday, April 22. The conference will take place from 3:30-8
p.m., at the Artists Collective in Hartford. Call (860) 486-4905
or (800) 622-9905 to register.
Buy used books at the University Libraries' book sale
In celebration of the Year of Reading, University Libraries
will hold a two-day sale of used books that have been donated
to the Libraries' book sale program. The sale will be held Wednesday,
April 21 and Thursday, April 22 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., in the
outdoor plaza between Homer Babbidge Library and the Dodd Center.
The books will cost 50 cents for paperbacks and $1 for hardcovers.
During the last three hours of the sale on Thursday, a bag of
books will cost $1.
Proceeds will benefit the Libraries' collections.
AAUP awards celebration scheduled for April 28
The UConn chapter of the American Association of University
Professors invites members of the University community to attend
the presentation of the AAUP Excellence Awards for Teaching
and Research on Wednesday, April 28, at 9:30 a.m. in Room 310
of the State Capitol building in Hartford. The awards are intended
to promote the faculty's continued commitment to teaching and
scholarship. Recipients of the 1999 awards are:
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Teaching Promise |
Ralph McNeal, Sociology;
Michelle Williams,
Psychology |
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Teaching Mentorship |
Kenneth Neubeck,
Sociology |
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Research Excellence |
Joseph Budnick, Physics;
Manuel Lerman,
Mathematics |
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Service - UConn |
David Jordan, Electrical &
Systems Engineering |
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Service - Community |
Gerald Sazama,
Economics |
Leading environmentalist to deliver Earth Day lecture
On Thursday, April 22, Earth Day, prominent environmentalist
Fred Krupp will deliver the Edwin Way Teale Lecture on Nature
and the Environment and the Geib Distinguished Lecture in Environmental
Engineering. The lecture, "Environmentalism in the 21st Century:
New Ways to Get Results," will take place at
8 p.m. in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. Krupp is executive
director of the Environmental Defense Fund, a leading environmental
organization that links science, economics and law to create
innovative, economically viable solutions to environmental problems.
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